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Dec. 30th, 2005 02:24 pm
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Just a few pictures from my time overseas. More later. Its a real pain in the ass to upload pictures to Photobucket on dial-up!




All those who have ever lived and worked here!
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View of the front of our house
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Our living room/bedroom/library/etc... with sleeping mats
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An Operation Dove member waves hello to America
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A view into the house from the front door
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Our kitchen
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Another view of our kitchen
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Our one electricity source, where we charged our phones, cameras, laptops, etc, in the evening during our 4-6 of power- not exactly up to code!
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On Eid Al-Fitr, the kids congregated at our house to play, and drew and colored all sorts of masterpieces, which tickled them to have displayed on our wall
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My favorite- what a ham!
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Sifah says "bring it on!"
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Sifah in a more angelic pose
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Kids playing in abandoned car that had been trashed by the IDF
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Kids hanging out at Beit CPT, playing backgammon while waiting for their friends and siblings to finish English homework
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Caves where the residents of Tuwani lived for hundreds of years, up until about 60--70 years ago. Many scholars believe Jesus was born in a cave much like this. Now used in the village for storage, or for animals.
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Abandoned stone house, which the village lived in until about 30 years ago, before building cement-block houses, like ours.
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The regional grammar school. Children from a bunch of surrounding villages come here, total of about 200 kids. The kids from Tuba attend here, the ones whose escorts we monitor every day.
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Sheep!
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View of the much-disputed clinic (now open, if they could just get a doctor here regularly) from the CPT front yard.
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Jaffa Gate, 7 am, before all the shops opened
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Damascus Gate, East Jerusalem
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More to come, periodically.

*"Beit" means house. Saying "Beit So-and-so" is like the French way of saying "Chez Paul", or "at so-and-so's house".

Date: 2005-12-30 08:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] febrile.livejournal.com
These are absolutely wonderful. Thank you.

Date: 2005-12-30 09:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blistermoth.livejournal.com
Thanks so much for sharing these!

Date: 2005-12-30 09:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bethypooh95.livejournal.com
2 things,... i am selfish,... my fav pic is the one that has part of you in it,.. at least it looks like it might be you. but i am partial. next thing- i wish i had the courage like you to go and check out places like palestine and jerusalem,... instead of just reading about them in books. you are my hero,... the wind beneath my wings... ok that sounds kind of patronizing,.. but in all seriousness,... i really wish i the courage and the whatever it is you have to do what you do. you are truly a wonderful person.

Date: 2005-12-31 07:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] violachic.livejournal.com
Actually, thanks, but its not me ;-) I was behind the camera for pretty much all of these.

And thanks for the kind words! Its really quite the adventure, to be honest. Amazing people, amazing places. Its fucked up, that's for sure, but.... still, so beautiful.

I will give you a call soon.

Date: 2005-12-30 11:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] innocent-irony.livejournal.com
Egads i miss it :(

I was told to talk to someone called David at the UK end of your operations, but never retrieved a number for it. If i can steal any fantastic ideas from you t'would rock.
In addition, you rock, lots. For all this *waves hands at piccys*

Date: 2005-12-31 07:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] violachic.livejournal.com
Email me, I'll email you back with the pertinient info when I'm back in the office next week.

Date: 2005-12-31 02:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stejcruetekie.livejournal.com
awesome, love the pics!

So I've been out of touch... What's the latest with the 4 CPTers (?) in Iraq? good or bad?

Date: 2005-12-31 07:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] violachic.livejournal.com
No news yet, thanks for asking. Keep up to date with the website (http://www.cpt.org), it will tell you all you need to know.

Date: 2005-12-31 07:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] poetdan.livejournal.com
Your pics brring back many memories. I travelled though a lot of the aera before the selltements were built. They have always troubled me.

Old city Jeruselem is one of my favorite places along with the medinas and casbashs of Fez, Marraketsh, and Tahgiers, Morroco.

Email me your # again. (I hear you are very entertaining:). I could use an update of travelles past.

Date: 2005-12-31 07:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] violachic.livejournal.com
Here ya go, you should have clearance to see this filtered post (http://www.livejournal.com/users/violachic/427173.html) which contains my info.

sheep!

Date: 2006-01-05 07:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dl76.livejournal.com
BAAAAH!

lunch sunday good, I think. did you find your wallet?

Re: sheep!

Date: 2006-01-05 07:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] violachic.livejournal.com
No :-( but thanks.

the doorman remembered me!

let me know what time for lunch, or a ballpark?

Re: sheep!

Date: 2006-01-08 06:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dl76.livejournal.com
one at my place.

ballpark

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